Do you want to own HR in a growing company and contribute to our organizational development?
Are you experienced within HR and eager to work with change processes, culture and leadership?
Then join Sophion! To strengthen our leadership team, we are looking for a strong HR profile.
The role
As our HR Business Partner, you will develop and implement the HR strategy, as well as related policies and procedures. This way, you ensure sustainable organizational development and strong human resource management, that supports the continued growth of our business.
You play an important part in the development of Sophion’s culture, organization and employee journey, and have close cross-functional collaborations with various stakeholders. As owner of HR your role is versatile and covers most HR aspects. You take on leadership – both on a strategic and operational level – and inspire others to do the same.
To succeed in this role, you must have a solid HR toolbox, excellent interpersonal skills, and a strong commitment to support the leaders and managers in bringing out the very best in all employees.
You will work in Ballerup, and report directly to the CEO of Sophion.
About us
Sophion Bioscience is a leading global life science company founded in 2000 by a group of passionate electrophysiologists, with the aim of making patch clamping objective and independent of user skills.
We specialize in developing and manufacturing automated patch clamp and cell line solutions. With our complete technical, biological, and application support, we help our partners pioneer ion channel research and drug discovery. We take the voodoo out of patch clamping to provide faster, more accurate, and objective patch clamping results for our users.
Through the continued development of our QPatch, and Qube 384 platforms, we offer uncompromised data quality in a user-friendly environment, from assay setup to advanced data analysis.
We are headquartered in Denmark and have subsidiaries in the United States, Japan and China.
Key responsibilities & tasks
- Establish, own and drive HR as a separate function
- Together with the Senior Leadership Team you define, build and uphold a positive workplace culture with respect for Sophion’s mission, vision, values and 25 years of company history
- Develop and implement a HR strategy that ensures Sophion has the organizational structure, human resource management and company culture that allow us to grow our business further
- Support leaders in recruiting, hiring, training, compensating, retaining, and motivating employees to realize their individual full potential. This way we maximize the joint efforts to achieve Sophion’s goals
- Facilitating solutions to leadership challenges on all levels in the organization
- Together with the management team, you ensure roles and responsibilities are clear, and that each employee has the competences and mindset to be successful in his/her role
- Map, optimize and drive the employee journey from onboarding to offboarding
- Track HR metrics and share analyses with leaders to support data-driven decision-making and optimization of employee satisfaction
- Develop and implement initiatives that increase employee satisfaction, engagement, and performance
- Continuously develop, improve and enforce all HR policies and processes
Key qualifications
- +5 years of hands-on-experience with HR management and organizational development, preferably from a growth company in the life science industry
- Ability to take on, and keep the balance of, leadership on a strategic and operational level
- Experience with development and optimization of HR processes
- Solid HR toolbox, including applications of various methodologies, platforms, frameworks etc.
- HR system ownership experience: Know-how of implementation, operation and optimal utilization of HR management software in a growing organization
- Cross-cultural understanding. In Ballerup we are +80 people and +16 different nationalities that work together. Thus, understanding and respecting cultural differences is vital, particularly in HR.
- Experience with international recruitment as well as HR support for handling of employee matters (ultimately also termination) of staff working abroad. This is important because Sophion have subsidiaries in USA, Japan and China, and our global organization continues to develop as we grow.
Personal qualifications
- You inspire trust and build strong relations on all levels of the organization
- Pragmatic approach to problem-solving: You focus on opportunities rather than limitations.
- Structured work approach and excellent leadership skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Outgoing and proactive
- Strong organizational skills
- Fluent in English both written and oral. Danish is a benefit.
Recruiting manager: Michel K. Jürgens, CEO.
If you have questions regarding this position, please contact Strategic Project Manager & Executive Support Lisbeth Bonde, tel. +45 22 10 72 34.
Please apply via LinkedIn
Deadline: As soon as possible.
We close this recruitment process as soon as we find the right person for the job. So, if the position sounds interesting to you, please apply via LinkedIn now.
